Taoyuan Tourism

You'll experience feelings of euphoria as you're surrounded by nature: pink lotus flowers, golden bald cypress trees and small yellow water-lily flowers! Situated in Guanyin District that is famous for lotus fields, Lotus Farm Ranch covering an area of 2 hectares consists of large lotus fields, a Straw Museum, and a Labyrinth of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. Also, fun hands-on activities are available for visitors all day long!

Passing through the entrance, visitors will find the dining area first. Before appreciating the beauty of lotus flowers, we strongly recommend tasty lotus cuisine sets: cold tofu pudding with lotus seeds, shaved ice with lotus seeds, sweet and sour roselle-flavored stinky tofu, and rice and lotus seeds cooked in bamboo tubes. After your appetite is satisfied, be sure to take a stroll through the lotus fields and you'll be enchanted with lotus flowers in bud or in full bloom! The varieties cultivated here include Ooga lotus, water lily, peony lotus and Siam lotus. Moreover, one thing not to miss is "Floating on Victoria Water Lily Pad": guests are allowed to sit on top of giant Victoria water lily pads and get their pictures taken!

The Rice Straw Museum in the lotus park displays the rice straw weaving handicrafts made by father of the museum host. The handicrafts depict the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, antique farm equipment and more. Here, tourists who love hands-on activities can enjoy different rice straw weaving activities, such as rice straw brush, rice straw sword, rice straw rope, rice straw rope sandals, rice straw dolls, etc. For foodaholics who love delicious food and are addicted to tasty food, awesome DIY activities including making lotus-leaf pounded tea, lotus-leaf mochi and lotus-leaf rice dumplings are also waiting for you! If you want to experience early farming practice, don't miss the chance to try earth oven cooking. Following the staff's instructions to heat the oven and smolder it, you'll be looking forward to what you can get after the cooking is done. The aroma of the food cooked by an earth oven is especially alluring and your taste buds will be satisfied for sure.